Xinye Li
Incoming PhD Student
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests
About
Hi! I am an incoming PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I am currently a senior undergraduate at Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, where I work under the supervision of Prof. Dianbo Sui. Previously, I was a research assistant and visiting research student at HKUST(GZ), and a research assistant at HKU CDS.
My research interests lie in Large Language Models (LLMs), with a particular focus on Model Editing (Knowledge Editing), Knowledge, Reasoning, and Efficient ML. More recently, I have become interested in Diffusion models and Video Generation.
Previously, I was a competitive programming (CP) contestant and a leader of the ACM club, working under the guidance of Prof. Kaikun Dong.
I am actively seeking Research Intern opportunities.
Selected Publications
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ScEdit: Script-based Assessment of Knowledge Editing
Xinye Li, Zunwen Zheng, Qian Zhang, Dekai Zhuang, Jiabao Kang, Liyan Xu, Qingbin Liu, Xi Chen, Zhiying Tu, Dianhui Chu, Dianbo Sui
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2025
Script-based assessment for knowledge editing in LLMs.
LLMSR@XLLM25: An Empirical Study of LLM for Structural Reasoning
Xinye Li†, Mingqi Wan†, Dianbo Sui
Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM 2025), 2025
An empirical study of LLM capabilities for structural reasoning tasks.
Exploring Deductive and Inductive Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models in Procedural Planning
Jiabao Kang, Xinye Li, Liyan Xu, Qingbin Liu, Xi Chen, Zhiying Tu, Dianhui Chu, Dianbo Sui
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
Exploring deductive and inductive reasoning capabilities of LLMs in procedural planning tasks.
Can We Debias Multimodal Large Language Models via Model Editing?
Zecheng Wang, Xinye Li, Zhanyue Qin, Chunshan Li, Zhiying Tu, Dianhui Chu, Dianbo Sui
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024
Investigating debiasing multimodal LLMs through model editing techniques.
News
🏆 Awarded the Zeshi Virtue and Talent Scholarship, one of the prestigious scholarships at Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai!
🏆 Honored to be awarded the National Scholarship 2024-2025 (Top 0.4% Nationwide)!
🎉 Our paper on deductive and inductive reasoning has been accepted by Findings of EMNLP 2025!
🎉 Our paper ScEdit has been accepted by Findings of ACL 2025! My first first-author paper!
🎉 Shared task paper LLMSR@XLLM25 accepted by ACL 2025 XLLM Workshop.
🥉 Our team won a Bronze Medal in ICPC EC-Final!
🏅 Our project was awarded Second Prize in the "Challenge Cup".
🎉 Our paper on debiasing MLLMs via model editing has been accepted by ACM MM 2024!
Honors and Awards
- 2025.12, Zeshi Virtue and Talent Scholarship (10 in HITWH), Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai.
- 2025.12, National Scholarship (Top 0.4% Nationwide), Ministry of Education of China.
- 2024.12, "Excellent Student Model" Honorary Title (Top 0.5%), Harbin Institute of Technology.
- 2023.12, National Scholarship (Top 0.2% Nationwide), Ministry of Education of China.
- 2023.11, Taihu Future Science and Technology Scholarship (Top 1.6%), Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai.
- 2023.04, First Grade Scholarship Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai.
Competitions
- 2024.12: 49th ACM-ICPC Asia East Continent Final (EC-Final) (Bronze Medal, Team Member)
- 2024.11: 19th "Challenge Cup": 2024 'Open Call for Solutions' Special Program (Second Prize, Team Leader)
- 2024.09: 2024 Weihai Collegiate Programming Contest (Gold Medal, Team Member)
- 2024.04: Huawei CodeCraft Contest 2024 (Second Prize, 9th in Preliminary Round)
- 2023.12: 48th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Hangzhou (Silver Medal, Team Member)
- 2023.11: 48th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Nanjing (Bronze Medal, Team Member)
- 2023.10: 2023 CCF Collegiate Computer Systems & Programming Contest (Bronze Medal, Team Member)
Education
- 2026.08 - 2030.07 (Expected), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Incoming PhD Student.
- 2022.08 - 2026.06 (Expected), Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China. B.Eng. in Software Engineering.
- 2025.04 - 2025.10, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. Visiting Research Student.
- 2019.09 - 2022.06, Dalian No.24 High School, Dalian, China. High School Diploma.
Internships
- 2026.01 - Now, Tencent PCG, Shenzhen, China.
- 2025.07 - 2025.08, HKU CDS Summer Internship Programme, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- 2025.02 - 2025.10, HKUST(GZ) High-Performance Machine Learning (HPML) Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
Services
- ACM (Competitive Programming) Club Leader @ HITWH.
- Reviewer: Open to reviewing opportunities in LLM-related workshops and venues.
Misc
- Several Useful Information about Summer Intern & PhD Application (Mainly focused on HK).
- If you'd like to collaborate or want advice on applying to CS PhD/MPhil programs, feel free to email me directly.
- I run a RedNote account, XIEEE, where I share graduate school application tips and research experiences.
- I've been learning Cantonese on Duolingo for 200+ days, but I'm still "識聽唔識講" (may understand but struggle to speak).